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Monday, March 26, 2012

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

"When blithe to argument I come,
Though armed with facts, and merry,
May Providence protect me from
The fool as adversary,
Whose mind to him a kingdom is
Where reason lacks dominion,
Who calls conviction prejudice
And prejudice opinion."

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Earlier this evening, watching the newly released Obama video on Hannity, I was struck by the contrast between Obama's relaxed eloquence despite the absence of notes or teleprompter and his more recent public speeches. There he was standing in the middle of a small crowd of students without even so much as a portable lectern in front of him, yet his words flowed smoothly and freely.

Contrast that with his well-known tendency to hesitate, stumble, mispronounce common words, blurt out ridiculous nonsense, and even lapse into total incoherence whenever, as candidate or President, he attempts to go off the 'prompter and speak extemporaneously. By now, we are no longer surprised to see Obama depending on his ever-present teleprompter even in such unlikely settings as a grade-school classroom or an athletic field. He (or, more likely, his handlers) realizes that especially in the age of YouTube, he can no longer afford to take the chance of generating fresh examples of Obamateurisms which can be endlessly replayed in the upcoming campaign.

I drew one inescapable, alarming but not surprising conclusion: the words Obama was so effortlessly speaking in that video represented what he really, honestly, deep-down believes. In essence, he has provided yet another demonstration of the essential truth of this Bible verse:

"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
~~~~~ Matthew 12:34 (KJV)